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Always and forever, I dislike when any group of mixed-sex sitcom friends start swapping partners. Yes, men and women are thrown together by work or circumstance, but that doesn't mean they eventually all have to sleep with each other! Let people be friends. It didn't work for Fleetwood Mac and it's awkward to watch on TV. I agree with everyone about the suckage that was Joey and Rachel, but at least the writers left Joey and Phoebe in peace -- they're tied with Sheldon and Penny as my favorite platonic couple.

Only on TV do doctors run all their tests and perform all procedures. House was the worst. I suppose it's not only TV, but more so there -- people who are having illicit sex never lock their doors or close their curtains. Well, they did watch a lot of TV sports on Everybody Loves Raymond, if that helps. :) I also wonder why there are no TVs on Star Trek. They're able to get transmissions from Earth and other planets. Indeed, TV is absent from most scifi shows set in the future unless it's a dystopian world and the idiot box is 40' tall and inescapable in public squares.

My top in this category is Homefront. I might have even gotten a little teary when it was axed. I'm not sure if four seasons qualifies as "before its time" but I think Everwood still had some stories to tell. I also agree about Cupid and John Doe; there were a lot of interesting places they could have gone. I tend to get bored with intricate and ongoing mytharcs, though, so I'm happy with more straightforward shows. I'm not, either, but the mods/Dave will throw you a bone.

I can somewhat sympathize with the surgeons feeling like their patients are nitpicky ingrates, but maybe they shouldn't have over-promised on their results in the first place. Yeah, nose job woman. You're 40 and just happen to hang around with a bunch of friends 15 years older. Good for uniboob that she was satisfied with her results, but damn, those things are bolted so far down on her chest. I agree her husband seemed super nice and caring.

Yes, please. The producers need to stop trying to make Chumlee happen. Or Antwaun and Chumlee. Or random young female employee and Chumlee. The only time he's remotely bearable is when they bring in a fake seller with a pair of sneakers and he actually has some expertise. I would say I'm surprised this show is still on except I still watch it. Staying for the occasional unusual item, I guess.

Does anybody enjoy watching the price haggling? It must be popular because there are so many shows now that incorporate it, but it's supremely boring to me. Offer > counter offer, offer > counter offer, offer > counter offer, meet in the middle. What a ride.

I might be getting a little to the point of thinking that Chris needs to dial it down with his own zingers and let the panelists shine more. I appreciate his comments and laughter and wouldn't want him to just stand there and give points, but at times he can verge on monopolizing the give-and-take.

Comb-over aside, I liked the grandfather of the blush bride. As an entourage member, you probably assume you were invited to the appointment because the bride values your opinion. Then you give it in a nice way and the bride crumples. The mother was awfully steely-eyed about it, but even she eventually relented.

I can maybe understand the hoarders, freaky eaters, phobics, and sex fetishists, but I will never ever understand the fingernail-growing people! Whyyyyy? It always makes me sad when a bride is in love with a controlling jerk who has such strong opinions about what dress she wears. I hope she doesn't plan on doing any thinking for herself after the wedding. (It's also possible that I took Sleeping With the Enemy too seriously.) We've seen tons of husbands get weak in the knees and teary when they first see their brides walking down the aisle, even when the dresses are a hot mess. And that Is the correct reaction. At least the producers are putting the "funny" Lori/Monte talking head sketches at the end of the show now, so I can delete before I get to them.

Whoa, huge crowd in Nolo! And good for Jesse. He looked great. I wonder about the significant others who devote so much time to helping -- don't they ever want to compete themselves? Maybe it's that relationship style where one person is the flower and the other is the gardener. Jesse's girlfriend did have some kind of medieval wench/hobbit thing going on at the con. No clue who Ivy Doomkitty is, but her costumes have not impressed me so far. This time she basically wore a sparkly leotard and cloth cape which seemed even measlier compared to YaYa's elaborate (and well-made) Jasmin Synn costume. Quote of the night: "I'm sweating bowls of ... sweat."

I went searching for his age last night, too, because it was bugging me. He looked like a teenager after the first 90 days, but then he got kind of haggard and his skin was blotchy and coarse at the final weigh-in. Honestly, he looked a bit sickly to me. Be interesting to see what his involvement will be next season; another yelly trainer, I guess.

I suspect the show's writers give the panelists some answers, or at least suggestions, or maybe the questions in advance. Especially for the first "this happened today" segment, because all three of them have to answer and the first person only get 3 seconds to think about it. Chris is always careful to say the "first live challenge" of the night when they get to it. At least the three panelists last night didn't go all TFM on us just because they worked together, so thanks for that. We don't get your in jokes, people!

Me, too. It's easier for me to list the handful of shows I've stuck with than the multitudes I've given up on. I haven't seen these mentioned, but The Riches and Drop Dead Diva both took ridiculous turns, or maybe their premises were simply unsupportable from the beginning. The regal baby plot and Adalind made me turn away from Grimm for good. Going back a while, Murphy Brown becoming a single mother .. blech. I stopped watching The Good Wife last season because there were too many personal, non-courtroom plots. I've never, ever cared about Peter and his elections, or the kids, or Jackie. I'm a big fan of limited-run series. Tell your story in one season and leave, folks.

All right, that's it for me. When Jackson tells the family that Mia is "suffering from house fire flashbacks" and that he's now in her headspace because he went through that fire training ... just no. The show has veered into self parody.

The panel last night kept playing to the audience and talking over each other and Chris in an un-funny way (although I'm sure they thought differently). It was chaotic to watch and I wish the editors had been able to excise more of it. The theme episodes where all the panelists are friends or work together or whatever always seem to devolve into free-for-alls.

I wonder how Chloe and Grant know each other? I would have guessed it was through her dad since Grant used to work at Lucasfilm and ILM, but wrong again in this life.

I like skeevy Howard in the abstract, like when he referenced being a bit of a self-taught sexual harassment expert, or getting called into HR every other day: "Hey Janine. How are Tom and the kids?" I didn't like watching him directly hit on to Penny or Summer Glau, et. Which reminds me! I'd have to add The Egg Salad Equivalency to my list of favorite eps. Sheldon Cooper's Council of Ladies!

Oh! That reminds me, I finally looked up that grapefruit blowjob instructional video. It was pretty much as advertised so not sure why the 3 panelists looked so horrified. Well, except the sounds. You're right, possibilities -- now that you mention it, Chris does look a little haggard/sick. There are many articles where he speaks about his past and being so overweight and depressed. I'm sorry, but he looks like a pretty normal-sized person to me in his before pictures. His face looks puffy compared to now, but that's what? Maybe a size 36-38 suit? He may have gone too far the other way now and is verging on unhealthily thin. I like Chris and am not at all trying to bash him. It's more a motherly thing. I actually tweeted a few @BadBeatlesSongs last night -- it was a fun one. None of them made it to the top 10 lists, of course, but I still like Back In the Kazakhstan.

I record a block of 2 reruns per day, but won't watch The Speckerman Recurrence, either. There are some good lines but I really dislike the actor who plays Speckerman (not the guy himself, who I don't know from Adam, but his acting in this particular role). And ditto on The Terminator Decoupling being boring. The phone conversations between Sheldon and Penny are funny, but not enough to make up for the rest of the stinkiness. I think part of my dislike is that the ep is too Howard-centric when he was at his creepiest. I have a ton of favorites, but the sight gags in The Transporter Malfunction always make me laugh. I just watched The Weekend Vortex and never get tired of Penny: "And that’s how a girl makes a scene."

From the linked article above: "Extreme Weight Loss remains a steady performer for ABC. The series is enjoying its strongest cycle in two seasons, ranking behind America's Got Talent in its two-hour Tuesday time slot." Well sure, but ... how many of us actually watch the whole shebang? I don't think I'm that much of an outlier, and the entire 2 hours takes me maybe 25 minutes to get through.

I think if there's one thing we can attribute to the show, it's that the kids are used to having production crews around and passers-by gathering around them and their parents on the street. They don't seem to be the least bit timid around strangers -- I especially noticed it when Zoey happily let the pedicurist work on her feet. She may have grown tired or cranky that we didn't see, but I'm not sure a lot of toddlers would have been so accepting of that. The part that teared me up was seeing Jen so overjoyed about her aunt being there. It was very touching.

The Wonder Woman (I could look up her name, but nah) who said she had won some world competition -- that had to have been in a special subcategory, right? Because that tutu costume we saw was nothing special. Nothing! You know how the national spelling bee has gotten so popular? I'm thinking I'd like to see an entire competition televised. We barely see any other costumes, and those only for 10 seconds each. I'd like to hear the judges ask their questions and get a better look at all the details. Boy, that Ashe costume is some kind of jinxed. I was disappointed for Rikki that the bow didn't work, because it did look cool lit up.

I didn't think it was the funniest episode, but "Cherry Poppins" made me choke-laugh. It must take a lot of work and timing for Chris to get his beardly scuff exactly right every day. Just shave, already.

Greedy bride Shawanda also had the oddest bushy/misshapen eyebrows, and was wearing what looked like a cheap (and ill-fitting) chambray or denim shirt dress over slacks. Fashion maven, indeed.

The friend who demanded that the bride go significantly over budget because she doesn't believe in sparing any expense when it comes to fashion can bite me. There aren't enough shut-ups in the world. Not that bride Shawanda didn't agree, but the friend bothered me more. I realize that blond bride's ticket to the show was her sob story about growing up in an orphanage, but having her crowbar that fact into her introduction was ridiculous. I felt sorrier for the consultant having to listen to that than I did for the bride.